title: Sensory systems: seeing the world in a new light.
abstract: Most terminally differentiated sensory neurons express a single sensory receptor molecule. A Drosophila photoreceptor organ breaks this rule by switching to expressing a different type of Rhodopsin as it metamorphoses from larva to adult.
authors.affiliation: Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine of the Skirball Institute, Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hofmeyer
authors.forename: Jessica E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Treisman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / Q000378:metabolism*; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D012243:Rhodopsin